New study reveals how electronic health records can benefit clinical trials
Credit: SAIL The study entitled "Long term extension of a randomised controlled trial of probiotics using electronic health records" led ...
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation announces five new Physician-Scientist Training Awards
New York, NY (May 16, 2018) - Physician-scientists are crucial to moving scientific discoveries from the lab to patients, but ...
Plug-and-play diagnostic devices
Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT CAMBRIDGE, MA -- Researchers at MIT's Little Devices Lab have developed a set of modular blocks that ...
Diagnosing breast cancer with an imaging pill
For women, mammograms are a sometimes uncomfortable, but necessary, annual ritual. But this procedure doesn't always provide accurate results, and ...
Case Western Reserve, Lucid Diagnostics sign agreement on Barrett’s Esophagus detector
CLEVELAND--Case Western Reserve University and Lucid Diagnostics, a subsidiary of publicly traded New York-based medical device company, PAVmed Inc. (Nasdaq: ...
Beef peptides block bitter tastes
From burgers to steaks, beef has a long history of being a delicious part of dinner. But what if that ...
Traditional Chinese medicine is widely used for cardiovascular disease
In this Letter to the Editor, the authors comment on a review article by Hao et al. Traditional Chinese Medicine ...
Bridge between epigenetics and cancer treatment
FRANKFURT. Not everyone person who has a "cancer gene" will inevitably develop this disease in their lifetime. Thanks to a ...
Colon cancer — Targeting tumor cell plasticity
Early-stage colon cancers can be surgically removed but later stages of the disease require more targeted treatments, including therapies designed ...
Predicting what drives people to seek, stay in substance-use treatment
Credit: Florida Atlantic University About 22 million Americans are substance dependent (illicit drugs and alcohol), which interferes with routine life ...
St. Jude named the WHO’s first Collaborating Centre for Childhood Cancer
Credit: St. Jude Children's Research Hospital The World Health Organization has designated St. Jude Children's Research Hospital its first WHO ...
DFG to fund 15 new Research Training Groups
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) is establishing 15 new Research Training Groups (RTGs) to further support early career ...
What is the economic impact of malaria for a pregnant woman living in an endemic area of Colombia?
Credit: author: Redesyplataformas Although malaria treatment is free of charge in Colombia, the economic costs incurred by pregnant women seeking ...
Stroke prevention drug combo shows promise, study says
If you've had a minor stroke or a transient ischemic stroke (TIA), taking the clot-preventing drug clopidogrel along with aspirin ...
Drug to treat bleeding may benefit some stroke patients, study finds
Patients with stroke caused by bleeding on the brain (intracerebral haemorrhage) may benefit from receiving a drug currently used to ...
Study shows increase in youth suicide attempts
The number of school-age children and adolescents hospitalized for suicidal thoughts or attempts has more than doubled since 2008, according ...
Nearly a quarter of Ontarians newly prescribed opioids received dose exceeding guidelines
Credit: St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, May 16, 2018 -- Nearly a quarter (23.9 per cent) of initial opioid prescriptions in ...
Researcher warns China’s program ‘riskiest environmental project in history’
A global expert on infrastructure says that China's plan to crisscross half of the Earth with massive transportation and energy ...
The first wireless flying robotic insect takes off
Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington Insect-sized flying robots could help with time-consuming tasks like surveying crop growth on large farms ...
New ‘Silk Road’ brings challenges and opportunities for biodiversity conservation
London. In an article published this week by the renowned journal Nature Sustainability, an international team of scientists argues that ...
